Patty Murray

Patricia Lynn "Patty" Murray (11 October 1950-) was a US Senator from Washington (D) from 3 January 1993, succeeding Brock Adams.

Biography
Patricia Lynn Jacobs was born in Bothell, Washington on 11 October 1950, and she graduated from Washington State University. She worked as a teacher and environmental and educational lobbyist before serving in the State Senate as a Democrat from 1989 to 1993 and then in the US Senate from 1993. She opposed the Iraq War, and she succeeded in negotiating a bipartisan budget act in 1993.